"Religion is suffering from an aggressive strategy of harassment and demolition!" He cautions, and suggests seven reasons why the subject should not disappear.
warned he would not talk on "key policy" and "at risk of being accused of scaremongering, but, yes," a direct and incisive. " And he did, putting, as he himself said, "the nail on the head from the beginning" and knowing that his words would know to-speech "politically incorrect", at least anticlerical secularist mentality. Bishop José Ignacio Munilla revealed the subtle as "aggressive" and dangerous strategy of secularism effectively cristianofóbico trying by all means charge the subject of Religion. And not only warned the clueless public school but also of formal education.
With a conference entitled "Subject of Religion in schools and other 'looms' ...", the Bishop of San Sebastián participated this morning in the Forum Europe-Tribune Euskadi held in Bilbao, in which Monsignor Mario Iceta , bishop of the local diocese, conducted the presentation.
"It's not just what is happening with the subject of Religion! The subject of religion is suffering from an aggressive strategy of harassment and demolition! Academic freedom and the same freedom of conscience are in danger! "Said the prelate Sebastian.
Confusion between "positive secularism" and "secularism"
to underpin the reasons for his complaint, Bishop distinguished between "positive secularism" and "secularism", explaining that it " adds a exclusionary and negative with respect to healthy secularism "and that" the problem is that it confuses secularism with secularism. "
Noting that the "secular state and public institutions, is neutral as between the various religious beliefs, and at the same time, collaboration with all of them as far as they contribute to the common good of society" and therefore "lay properly understood, is a guarantee of liberty, equality and coexistence," Munilla contrasted that secularism "part of a very different assumptions: secular state does not recognize the religious life of the citizens as well positive for the individual and society, which must be protected by public authorities. By contrast, the sensitivity considered a private, tolerable only in so far as it has no pretensions to permeate social life or influence it. Assumes that religions can not provide a set of common moral convictions able to support the coexistence in a pluralistic society. Rather, it is part of the false misconception that religions are a source of intolerance and challenges for peaceful coexistence. "
Consequently, he continued, "secularism means that religion should be confined to private life and has to be replaced in the public domain by a set of values \u200b\u200bas an identity 'of the democratic state, without any religious reference. "
"It is clear that these budgets secularists are full of prejudices and false are liable for some of the black legends that have been made against Christianity, in addition to unaware of the richness of Catholic social doctrine " .
The strategy of anti-Christian secularism, discuss your plans in stages
Some might qualify for Munilla saying "what is under discussion is not the kind of religion in itself but only its presence in the public school . " "Anyone who thinks such a thing is wrong," says the bishop, going to explain then, "who could be a little distracted," the strategy of radical secularism.
"The anti-Christian secularism is clever, and often have the" strategy "to discuss your plans in stages: first, legalization of abortion in extreme cases and moving, after a few years when they have" matured social conscience, abortion becomes recognized as a "right democratic "... and finally it ends up not even respect the right to conscientious objection for those who do not want to be partner of abortion."
"In the case of Religion class, I think it's going something like: you begin to put any kind of 'sticks' in the 'wheel' to the status of the subject (evaluable or not evaluable; trunk or secondary, with alternative or no alternative course, in school or extracurricular, etc, etc, etc) continues to vindicate their exclusion from the public school system on behalf of a misunderstood concept of 'secular school,' and be completed-a medium term, to force his departure from the teaching curriculum of the same private school. As I said earlier, the subject of religion is subject to real harassment ... What is at stake is not and their integration into the public system, but its very reason for being in formal education. "
Why "yes" the subject of Religion? Seven pedagogical reasons
Munilla But not only made a statement of denunciation of the problem but some expressed positive "pedagogical reasons underlying the need and rationale for the subject of religion in the education system."
The first: " The kind of religion is a right, not a privilege : On the basis of so much controversy on this subject, some Catholics may be dragging a kind of complex, as if they had made them believe that the presence Religion class in school, is reminiscent of the old regime in this democratic society. Quite the contrary: it is a right, recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. " Second
" The kind of religion is comparable or substitutable Catechesis: The subject of religion is intended primarily to intellectual, even with the distinction of being religious, while in Catechesis seeks to introduce students to the personal monitoring of Jesus Christ. "
Third, "kind of religion helps to understand the culture we have inherited: A young man can not understand the painting, music, sculpture, architecture, philosophy, history, politics, folklore, traditions ... in short, their own roots, if you do not know in depth the fundamentals of Catholicism. "
The fourth: "The Religion provides a worldview against the fragmentation of knowledge: Today there is a great "fragmentation" of human knowledge, accompanied by an over-accumulation of data, both in the scientific disciplines in the humanities. It is a fragmentation that has contributed significantly to the rise of a certain crisis of cultural identity, values \u200b\u200band certainties .... "
A fifth reason is that "religion responds to the meaning of life: A global education must respond to key questions about the meaning of our existence. What good is knowing the evolution the Universe, if nobody tells me why and what we're in this life? How can we justify human rights without accounting for the essential difference between the irrational animal and rational man? Can we talk of scientific optimism and society of the future, if we have based our hope in the beyond death .... "
The penultimate argument concerns the "Interreligious Dialogue : We are abundantly aware of the serious problem to world peace posed by fundamentalism. Every time we see more clearly that international stability, and even our lives together with a number of immigrants needs to be based on dialogue between religions. Now, you can only talk who has awareness and knowledge of its starting point. Otherwise, rather than an "alliance of civilizations", we are led to the disappearance of our own. "
Finally, "Moral Education: is clear that a complete education must include the moral dimension. Of little use in the accumulation of concepts in teaching, if there is a specific space in which to be educated in moral behaviors such as sincerity, solidarity, justice, respect, generosity ... This is another essential aspect of the subject of Religion, morality. "
A word to parents Anti-Religion in Euskal Herria
The bishop finally referred to the position taken by the Federation of Parent Teacher Associations of Euskal Herria, as opposed to religion can bid on public school association has sent letters to parents asking them not to enroll their children in this subject, so that those hours may be used for other compulsory.
"It's a pressure to bring the subject of Religion school hours, and ultimately de la escuela pública”, criticó el prelado.
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